Supervisor: Dr Katy Clough
Project description:
The student will develop and use numerical relativity simulations to investigate fundamental physics in strong gravity regimes. The goal is to understand the behaviour of environments around black holes and how they might be observed from gravitational wave data, the effect of new fields in the early universe, and signals from exotic matter solutions of gravity. The student will use HPC (High Performance Computing) resources to solve the coupled non-linear partial differential equations of general relativity, using the numerical relativity code GRChombo (www.grchombo.org). Whilst C++ coding and use of HPC will be a key part of any projects, potential students will not be required to have prior experience in these fields. Enthusiasm, resilience, and a willingness to learn will be considered the most important attributes.
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